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NAVAL ARCHEOLOGY AND
THE ART OF NAVIGATION
oceans
men and seas
6,000 years of fascinating
adventure

Chapter I : "SHIPS FROM ANTIQUITY"
from prehistory to modern times. Rafts and ships from the Pacific, from Egipt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome ...This chapter's contributors :
THOR EYERDHAL, Ethnologist
JAVIER NIETO, Archaeologist
ZAHI HAWAS, Archaeologist
JOSE Mª HIDALGO CUNARRO, Archaeologist
Chapter II: THE ART OF NAVIGATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
In the first centuries of the second millenium four cultures develop navigation techniques: the Chinese, the Mediterranean, the Arabic and the Nordic. Seafaring development, astronomy, cartography.This chapter's contributors:
ESTACIO DO REIS, General of the Portuguese Navy .
MANUEL CATALAN Y PEREZ DE URQUIOLA. Admiral, Spanish Navy .
JOAQIN CAZORLA POZAS Historian and Geographer